Remember the Pets’ Trust?
A whopping 64% of us approved this initiative on a non-binding ballot question in 2012. It aimed to direct budget dollars for animal services to a massive spay and neuter program to take care of the stray and abandoned dogs and cats that are overpopulating, particularly in the southwestern part of Miami-Dade. The Miami-Dade Commission and then-mayor Carlos Gimenez decided to ignore us.
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When Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado goes Thursday evening to a town hall meeting hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations, it will be an act of courage.
This is where the Calusa people live. Ladra fully expects some of them to come and pressure her to change her mind on the development of 550 homes on the 168-acre abandoned golf course now that there is evidence that protected Florida birds are nesting there.
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Developers are making noise and moving earth at start of nesting season
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Miami-Dade Commissioners will have to re-vote on the zoning and land use changes for the abandoned Calusa golf course if developers still want to build 550 homes on the 168 acres. An appeals court on Wednesday upheld an earlier court’s invalidation of the 2021 approval because the county had not provide the required pubic notice.
And it is highly unlikely developers will be able to get the same density now that environmental studies have shown proof that the site is a breeding rookery for Florida’s endangered tri-colored heron — as well as a bunch of other birds — and a foraging site for the endangered bonneted bat.
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Developers of 550 homes on the former golf course must make changes
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Neighbors hope county or state will step in and save the natural preserve
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